The goal was to talk about pocketbook issues — the minimum wage, equal pay for women — and cast Washington as consumed by manufactured political controversies. But the tour took on a discordant note when set against a series of international crises: the standoff with Russia’s Vladimir Putin in eastern Ukraine, the outbreak of Ebola in West Africa and the rise of the Islamic State militant group, whose gruesome executions of two Americans helped persuade Obama to authorize a new U.S. military campaign in Iraq and Syria... washingtonpost/politics/where-did-obama-go-wrong/2014/11/03/f0196c0a-61e2-11e4-8b9e-2ccdac31a031_story.html
Posted on: Tue, 04 Nov 2014 20:52:09 +0000
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